Lizard Squad Just hacked PSN and Xbox LIve again

Its why its down for everyone who is wondering.

*sips coffee* ah the PC life
but in all seriousness why hasn't the lizard squad been shut down already im surprised at the lack of action regarding them and theirs

They made the mistake of screwing with GamerGate by attacking the hub at 8chan. One of the 8chan boards doxxed a bunch of them and turned them over to the FBI. We got the front-end of their botnet site shut down, but the botnet itself still exists somewhere.

Looks like the members who are left are having fun with it.

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Originally Posted by Kukajoo

*sips coffee* ah the PC life

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*Guzzles beer* ahh the superbowl

I'm waiting for certain companies to file charges against this scum under applicable international terrorism laws. Bubba's gonna do some "Haxxors 4 lulz", if you catch my drift.

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Originally Posted by Kukajoo

but in all seriousness why hasn't the lizard squad been shut down already im surprised at the lack of action regarding them and theirs

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http://www.pcworld.com/article/2863927/two-alleged-members-of-lizard-squad-arrested-following-xbox-livepsn-christmas-attacks.html
Unfortunately, investigation to the who and where these issues come from is often tricky.

Don't the Lizardsquad claim attacks AFTER they happen? PSN was temporarily offline for 20 mins.....

PSN was offline?? When was this? I've had no issue!

People keep talking about these hackers like they are the ones causing issues. The real issue is if the company being attacked doesn't bother to take precautions to prevent such an attack in the first place. Either way, though, someone here did bring up a good point - this group only claims events after they are known to happen. I know of a couple of hacker groups that actually post on the boards their frigging schedule for attacks - before they happen ROFL. And the companies they go up against STILL dont put up extra security - and you know for a fact that companies see and follow those boards also.

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Originally Posted by Faelandaea

People keep talking about these hackers like they are the ones causing issues. The real issue is if the company being attacked doesn't bother to take precautions to prevent such an attack in the first place. Either way, though, someone here did bring up a good point - this group only claims events after they are known to happen. I know of a couple of hacker groups that actually post on the boards their frigging schedule for attacks - before they happen ROFL. And the companies they go up against STILL dont put up extra security - and you know for a fact that companies see and follow those boards also.

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Well it's Lizard Squad, they typically DDoS. Pretty hard to prevent that without stopping it at the source.